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ArticleJournal of medical ethics2015

The regulatory cliff edge between contraception and abortion: the legal and moral significance of implantation.

Sally Sheldon

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Article in Journal of medical ethics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 author.

Sally Sheldon

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In regulating the voluntary interruption of pregnancy, English law has accorded particular significance to two biological events. First, 'viability', the moment when a fetus is said to acquire the capacity for independent life, plays an important role in grounding restrictions on access to legal abortion later in pregnancy. Second, equally significantly but far less frequently discussed, 'implantation' marks the point in pregnancy from which abortion laws apply. This paper focuses on this earlier biological event. It suggests that an unquestioning reliance on implantation as marking an appropriate moment of transition between two radically different legal frameworks is deeply problematic and is rendered still less sustainable in the light of the development of new technologies that potentially operate shortly after the moment of implantation.

Indexed as

Beginning of Human LifeEmbryo ImplantationMoral ObligationsAbortion, InducedAbortion, LegalContraceptionContraceptive Agents, FemaleContraceptives, OralContraceptives, PostcoitalFemaleFetal ViabilityHistory, 19th CenturyHistory, 20th CenturyHumansLegislation, MedicalMenstruation-Inducing AgentsContraceptive Agents, FemaleContraceptives, OralContraceptives, PostcoitalMenstruation-Inducing AgentsAbortionBills, Laws and CasesLawLegal AspectsReproductive Medicine

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PMID26085334
PMCPMC4552905

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